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"J. W. WALSH. BED PLATE FOR RAILWAY RAIL JOINTS.

No. 459,838. Patented Sept. 8, 1891.

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Patented Sept. 8, 1891.

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JOHN IV. WALSH, OF TROY, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO EDVARD F. MURRAY AND ERASTUS II. VAUGHN, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

BED-PLATE FOR RAILWAY-RAIL JOINTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,338, dated September 8, 1891. l

Application filed November 5, 1.890. Serial No. 370,375. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern. flanges B serve to prevent the cross-ties A2 Be it known that I, JOHN IV. VALSH, a citifrom crowding together and strengthen the zen of the United States, residing at Troy, plate just at the beginning of the bearingcounty of Rensselaer, and State of New York, surface, which rests upon the supporting cross- 5 have invented certain new and useful Imtie. The cross-anges B may be of any de- 5 5 provements in Bed-Plates for Railway-Rail sired depth. I have indicated their form Joints, of which ,the following is a specilicawhen made of the same depth as flanges A3 tion. by dotted lines B2 in Fig. 2; but as some My invention relates to suchimprovements; cross-ties are made wider than others I prero and it consists of the novel construction and fer to have the depth of the cross-flanges B 6o combination of parts hereinafter described and the ends of the bridge-flanges of a uniand subsequently claimed. form depth, as shown by the solid lines, and

Reference may be had to the accompanying to strengthen the plate at the angle formed drawings, and the letters of reference marked between the end bearing-surfaces and the 15 thereon, which form a part of this speciicacross-flanges B by a llet B3, connecting such 65 tion. flange with such bearing-surface, as shown. Similar letters refer to similar part-s in the The fillet may have a rounded or concaved several gures therein. face and be adapted to rest upon one corner Figure 1 of the drawings is a bottom plan or other part of the cross-tie, either being 2o view of my improved bed-plate for railwayforced down into the yielding material of a 7o rail joints'. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation Wooden tie or resting on a face prepared to of the same. Fig. Sis a vertical cross-section receive it. The bridge-flanges give strength of the same, taken on the broken line 3 3 in Fig.` to the middle part of the plate and make it 1. Figs. 4 and are respectively a side elevapossible to produce a light strong plate. The 2 5 tion and a bottom plan view showing a modideep cross-flanges contiguous to the cross-tie 75 fication. permit the plate to be raised from the tie and The principal object of my invention is to' wedges inserted between the tie and the plate adapt the bed-plate of a railway-rail joint or to raise the track-rail without disturbing the chair to be supported by two cross-ties or cross-ties, which is a great convenience in the 3o sleepers, one at each end of the plate. cold season when the soil about the ties is 8o A is the bed-plate,provided near each end frozen. When desired, the middle or bridge with the spike-holes A', by which the plate part of the plate may be made in one solid can be spiked to the cross-ties A2. The lower ange, as shown in Figs. land 5 at O. Ihave or bottom face of the plate is provided with shown in Fig: by solid lines and in Fig. 5 35 the depending cross-flanges A3, one at each by dotted lines the form and position of a 8 5 end of the plate, adapted to engage withkthe rising cross-flange C on the upper surface of sides of the ties to prevent them fronrspreadthe middle part of the plate. I have also ining and assist the spikes in holding the plate dicated by dotted lines D in Fig. 4 the relain place, the plate also having bearing-sur tive positions of the railway-rails. The cross- 4o faces A4, adapted to rest upon the ties. flange O prevents the rails from being dis- 9o The middle part of the plate is provided placed by creeping along the joint-plate and with a plurality of longitudinal or bridge unequally distributing the load of the plate flanges B, extending lengthwise of the plate upon the plate-supporting ties, as would hapfrom one end bearing to the other. The pen on steep grades, and prevents abutting 45 bridge-Hanges are fish-bellied in form, as contact of the rails one upon another. The 95 shown, whereby they project from the lower plates may be provided with any known form surface of the plate agreater distance at their of cheek-pieces or flanges to engage the web, middle part than they do at their ends. The ball, or1 flanges of the rail. ends of the several bridge-flanges preferably I have indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3 5o terminate in a cross-flange B. These crossthe relative positions of rails and flanges, d roo representing the rails, and b the flanges rising from the upper surface of the plate to engage with the flanges a of the rails.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure 5 by Letters Patent, is-

1. A bed-plate for railway-rail joints, having a bearing-surface at each end adapted to rest upon a cross-tie,a depending cross-flange at each end ot the plate, and a depending bridge-lian ge extending from one bearing-surface to the other, substantially as described.

2. In abed-plate for railway-rail joints, having a bearing-surface at each end adapted to rest upon a cross-tie, and aplurality of bridgeiianges severally extending from one bearingsurface to another, the combination, With a depending cross-flange located at the junc- JOHN W. NALSII Vitnesses:

FRANK C. CURTIS, W. H. HOLLISTER, Jr. 

